Supporting device for packages.



A. H. SCOTT. SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR PACKAGES.

APPLIOATION TILED JAN. 24, 1907.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914,

THE mums Pt ARTHUR} H. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

surron'rine iniivron ron. PACKAGES,

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedIAug. 4., 1914..

Application filed January 24,1907. Serial No. 853,850.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. Soo'r'r, of

the city and county of Philadelphimstate of Pennsylvania, have inventedan Improvement in Supporting Devices for Packages,

of whichthe followlng is a specification.

My invention has. reference to supporting devices for packages of toiletpaper and con:

sists of certain improvements which are fully set forth inthe followingspecification and shown in theaccompanying drawings which form apartthereofI In Letters Patent No. 765,599, granted to me on July 19th,1904, I have shown a device for supporting packets of toilet paper in acase, consisting of a backing provided at its top with an open invertedtriangular pocket adapted to receive a supporting tongue or hook of thecase.

My present invention relates to a device of this character and moreparticularly consists of improvements in the pocket structure, wherebygreater strength and efficiency are obtained. My improvements also include means for attachingthe pocket to the paper package.

More specifically, my invention consists in forming the pocket andretaining on securingmeans of an integral piece of sheet metal,flthepocket being formed of sheet metal having its edges bent over upon thebody of the sheet, and the attaching means consisting of atongue bent atright angles to the plane of the pocket.

My invention also comprehends details of construction which, (together.with the features above specified, will be better understood byreference to the drawings, in which: 1

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a paper packet embodying my.invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the upper part of the same;and Fig. 3, is a perspective view of a modified form of the sheet metalpocket and securing means.

Ais the package of toilet paper, B is the metallic pocket at the back ofthe package of paper, and C is the securing tongue which extends throughthe paper package and has its free end bentover as at D on the oppositeside of the said package. The tongue C and the pocket B are preferablymade of one integral piece of sheet metal. The construction of thepocket may be made in various ways, all of which comprehend theessential characteristics of a pocket open from below, adapted to theback of the package of paper and connected to said package of paper bythe securing tongue or its equivalent.

Referring to the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pocket is madetriangular with the outer plate B continuous and with the upper edgesthereof turned over to form flanges E E preferably meeting at the topand adapted to form grooves or recesses F into which the support mayenter when the package is placed in the case or cabinet as moreparticularly set out in my patent hereinbefore referred to. The tongue Cis. pref erably formed integral with one of the flanges E, but bent atright angles thereto so as also to be at right angles to the plate B andplane of the pocket as a whole. In this construction, the tongue C is atthe upper part of the pocket.

Referring to Fig. 3, the plate forming the pockethas its side edges Ebent inward correspondingto what is shown in Fig.1, and inthis instancethe tongue 0 is made integral with one of said side flanges. There beingno top flange in this form. the corners H H may be bent over so as toform oblique closures for a portion of the upper part to I sustain thepocket and package upon the supporting arm of the cabinet. I have shownthe side flanges inrthis instance with theirloweredges oblique, but thisis not essential as these lower edges may be other- I wise formed ifsodesired.

These various examples of my improved supporting device will explain thegeneral construction of my improvement, but it will be understood thatthe minor details may be varied in .many ways I without: departing fromthe essential characteristics of the invention set out in the appendedclaim.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

Asupporting device for a. paper packet which consists of an invertedsocket formed In testimony of Which invention, I have of sheeltJ metalhaving its edges bent};l over to hereunto set my hand.

form 0 lique grooves and having t e metal I of one'ofsaid edges extendedat right angles v I ARTHUR SCOTT 5 i to and Wholly to one side of theplane of the Witnesses:

socket to form a tongue for securing the GEO. E. GRIFFIN,

paper packet to the socket; A. P. THACKARA. 7

copies of this patent may be obtained foi' five cents eaclyby addressingthe Commissioner of Ratents,

Washington, I). G."

